Don't Slip

[FrankMi]

Some images put me on edge.

[Marie Hass]

Oh my!!!! Now I have vertigo!

I love this, but I think I would like to see just a bit more of the table top of the rock formation across the way.

Marie

[bnnrcn]

WOW! Very nice Frank:-) I wish you had had the opportunity to take this photo at sunrise or at sunset with more impressive colours,but it can be seen that it is a difficult place to reach..Thank you for sharing:-)

[Wavelength]

Lovely ........

[Shadowman]

Nice image. Did you deliberately omit the sky because of time of day?

[FrankMi]

I love this, but I think I would like to see just a bit more of the table top of the rock formation across the way.

Nice image. Did you deliberately omit the sky because of time of day?

I do have the table top in the original Marie, but as John has suspected, the mid-day sky was almost white and overblown so it didn't add anything constructive to the scene.

[NorthernFocus]

That's an awesome perspective. But please step back a bit, you're making me nervous...

[FrankMi]

That's an awesome perspective. But please step back a bit, you're making me nervous...

Thank you Dan.

[IzzieK]

'Would be nice to put my leg down one of those ledges...

[FrankMi]

How was this treated in post processing? Here is the original SOOC image reduced and sharpened for web posting:



For post processing of this 7 year old Jpeg image, I separately used creative sharpening on the foreground, middle-ground, and background as each had a different distance from the camera and different lighting conditions (shadow, sunlit, and hazy).

Because the foreground was in shadow, I added brightness to lift the details in the shadows. Then I used the Dodge tool to lighten the lightest rocks in the foreground in order to call attention to how close they were to falling off the edge of the cliff and to bring more life to the tree branches in the shade.

I warmed the color of the middle-ground to help make up for the bleaching effect of the bright sun on this area.

To help cut the haze on the top right background I added contrast to this area.

Realizing that I could not get a good horizon and sky, I then cropped the scene just below the horizon and set the aspect ratio to 8:5, resized for output and applied an output sharpening with Unsharp mask at Amount of 100%, 0.3 Radius and 0% Threshold.

To get a better before and after view, open either image in Lytebox and use the arrow keys at the bottom of the image to switch back and forth between the two versions.

I hope this helps to see what can be done with some of your older images.

[bnnrcn]

Even if the sky is overblown,I like the composition in SOOC more .

[FrankMi]

Even if the sky is overblown,I like the composition in SOOC more .

Thank you Binnur, I agree on the composition and if I shot that same image today I would think to compensate for the blown sky with a ND filter or exposure bracketing.

It is fascinating what a slight difference in the cropping can make. I am still coming to grips with image 'sensitivity'. That is, when will a slight change make a big difference and when will a big change make almost no difference at all in the appeal of the final image. A lot to think about!